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How scepticism tempered with bravery helps in investment decisions
Being too risk averse may mean passing up good opportunities. But if you are too gung ho, things can go awry
Published Tue, Sep 14, 2021 · 09:50 PM
THE number of scams reported in Singapore in the first half of 2021 rose 16 per cent to 8,403 from the same period last year.
Investment scam victims lost S$66.2 million - more than triple the S$21.6 million in the same period last year.
When reading reports of scams, one veers between wondering how victims can at times be very gullible and how some scammers can be very ingenious.